What options do devs have for building escrow for p2p bitcoin trades?

- hold invoices on LN (hacky, but works - tested in the wild)
- arkade (?)
- rootstock (?)
- fedimint (?)

Anyone got links for the newer (?) options?

Any other ways?

Ideally works with LN nicely, via swaps or other ways...

That is correct.

Where in the world does this actually work 😂

I came early cause 1st time on Mauritius and it's a long flight, so wanted to have some time to acclimatise :)

Ok so where can I find Bitcoiners here on Mauritius?

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Has somebody built an @nprofile1q... equivalent for iOS? 👀

iOS native app ideally. ✌️

True master of the art

Amusing

One of the first rap songs that referenced the internet - 1996

Quality of rap declined with internet adoption
https://youtu.be/qWPmRSYq-f8?si=POh4AaizKlidRxpP

https://pretyflaco.github.io/bitcoingovernance/

🧵 I published my perspective on Bitcoin governance.

Where does Bitcoin derive its censorship-resistance from? And how do we preserve it?

Sharing some frameworks I've found helpful 👇

The main insight: Bitcoin's unique value comes from censorship-resistance, and the two magic ingredients to achieve it are:

✅ Free users
✅ Free software

-> Censorship-resistance requires free users
-> Free users require free software

Traditional governance asks "who decides?"

These systems are easy to co-opt and can therefore never preserve censorship-resistance.

Bitcoin governance asks "how do we preserve free users?", and this is they key to preserving censorship-resistance.

For developers, this means:

-> Optimize for user agency
-> Default to user choice over "optimal" outcomes

Remember: we're building infrastructure for freedom.

These are just my current thoughts - governance philosophy evolves with experience - but it's clear to me that censorship-resistance is a derivative of free users.

There is a leap of faith required in bitcoin’s governance model.

We must trust that when users are given genuine freedom and access to good information, they will make choices that preserve what makes bitcoin valuable.

Users who want bitcoin to remain censorship-resistant will choose software and rules that maintain that property.

Users who prefer other properties may make different choices, but the network’s evolution will reflect the aggregate of all these individual decisions.

When we take the leap and trust that free users will make the right choices, Bitcoin succeeds.

I would love to hear perspectives from builders, users, and researchers working on or thinking about these problems.